Stars' bank details revealed on Internet

[Patrick Oonk <patrick () pine nl>]

http://europe.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/11/09/switzerland.bank/index.html

Stars' bank details revealed on Internet

November 9, 2000
Web posted at: 1222 GMT

ZURICH, Switzerland -- The bank details of
several show business stars, including
former James Bond actor Roger Moore,
were posted on the public Internet for a
week as a result of an error by a Swiss
bank.

A technical glitch revealed the stars' secret
bank account numbers, private addresses
and money transfers on a Credit Suisse
Group Web site, the bank acknowledged on
Thursday.

That meant that Internet users could get a rare glimpse into account details of
such stars as Moore, Swiss entertainer DJ Bobo and German pop star Udo
Juergens.

The Swiss Blick newspaper said in a front-page story that several stars were
affected by the inadvertent publication of details of 675 money transfers, but did
not say exactly how many.

Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-largest bank, confirmed the report and said
it had shut down a test Web site where the details appeared.

'First-class scandal'

"We are investigating how exactly that could have happened and have closed
down the page," CS spokesman Georg Soentgerath told CNN.com.

"A third person put data in there which should never have gone in there.
Unfortunately it could lead to a loss of confidence in the bank."

The problem cropped up when a Swiss agency that coordinates royalty
payments sent the confidential data to Credit Suisse as a test of its transfer
system. But the numbers inexplicably appeared on the bank's Internet banking
Web site, Direct.net.

"This is a first-class scandal," Juergens told Blick. "How can I feel secure at
such an institution?"

"I am mad as hell. I am going to close my two accounts at CS," Swiss singer
Polo Hofer was quoted as saying.

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